European insurers want uniform rules from Solvency II. And Solvency II needs a resolution of the accounting dilemma.

Lawmakers are proposing a federal-state partnership to regulate a US insurance industry shorn of price controls. Is it a pragmatic answer or a recipe for confusion?

An idea for an alternative capital adequacy regime for banks is being closely examined by several key regulators in the US and UK. By Melvyn Westlake

Leasing firms want the Basel regulators to accept the fact that they own the equipment they lease out. That makes leasing a lower risk business than lending money, says Mathias Schmit.

LONDON, April 21 - Global accounting rule makers responded to banking regulators\' concerns today by proposing a limit on the use of the so-called fair value option in the new international accounting standards (IAS).

BRUSSELS, April 21 - The European Commission today issued its delayed proposed directive for the `fast track\' supervision of Europe\'s reinsurance industry to help reinforce financial stability.

WASHINGTON, April 22 - US Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan has said he hopes US federal banking agencies can \"close the gap\" on the treatment of credit cards in the complex Basel II upgrade of international rules for bank safety.

FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, Germany, April 27 - Global banking regulators have cleared up 99.9% of the outstanding problems in the international Basel II pact aimed at bolstering bank solvency, the world\'s top banking supervisor said in an interview published today.

BASEL, Switzerland, January 17 - The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has yet to decide on a successor to William McDonough as chairman of the committee, Basel Committee officials said today.

LONDON, January 28 -- Fears that the European Commission\'s proposed new capital adequacy legislation for banks and investment firms will have a harmful affect on some stockbrokers and asset managers are expressed in a letter sent to the EU today.